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Patented Nov. 28.11882.

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WILLIAM J. MULLEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CURTAIN- -ROD HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,265, dated November28, 1882. Application filed May 18, 1882. (No model.)

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improvedcurtain-rod-holding device which can easily be adjusted according to thelength of the curtain-rod or width of the window-opening. a

The invention consists in a tube provided near the ends with clamping orbinding screws, in the ends of which tube bent or curved wires or rodsare held by the screws, which rods or wires have loops or eyes at theendsfor receiving the pintles of the curtain-rod, and have loops or eyesnear the upper ends for the hooks ior suspending the curtain-rod holder.By adjustin gthese-rods or wires to projectagreater or less distancefrom the ends of the tubes the same can be adjusted for curtain-rods ofdifferent lengths.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a curtain and its rod, showing thelatter hung in one of my improved holders. Fig. 2 is a longitudinalsectional elevation of my improved curtainrod holder. Fig. 3 is across-sectional elevation of the same. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of thehook for hanging the curtain-holder.

A tube or hollow rod,A, which may be plain or ornamental, is providedwith two binding or clamping screws, B, for holding wires or rods 0,which are passed into the ends of the tube A in place. These rods 0 havetheir outer ends bent or curved downward, and have loops or eyes Dformed at these outer ends, which eyes or loops D are to receive thepintles E atthe ends of the curtain-rod. The upper or straight parts ofthe wires or rods (3 are bent to form loops F, for receiving the hooksG, by which the curtain-rod holder is suspended froin the topcross-piece of the window-jamb. The shanks of these hooks are threaded,and pass through a disk, H, which can be screwed up or down on theshank. By means of this disk the hooks can be closed, and the loops Fcannotbe thrown out ofthe hooks by accident. The rods or wires 0 aremoved in or out of the tube A a greater or less distance, as the lengthof the curtain-rod may require, and are locked in position by means ofthe binding-screws B. The hooks G are then secured in the window-frame,so as to coincide with the loops F, and then the curtain-rod is placedbetween the loop ends of the wires or rods G, the pintles E-passing intothe loops D.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, ist 1.Acurtain-rod holder formed of two wires, C 0, having loops 1) F, andconnected by an intermediate piece,A,as shown and described.

2. In a curtain-rod holder, the combination, with the rod A, of thebinding-screws B and the rods or wires 0, held in the ends of the rod A,and each provided with a loop, D, at the end for the curtain-rod pintle,and a loop, F,

near the upper end for the hook G, substantially as herein shown anddescribed, and for the purpose set forth.

WILLIAM J. MULLEN.

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